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| Marian Aguiar, Assistant Professor, Literary & Cultural Studies | ||
| Dr. Marian Aguiar is interested in how concepts travel in a global context. Her current project explores cultural representations of modernity by looking at the imagination of space in colonial, nationalist and postcolonial contexts. In her book in progress, Tracking Modernity: Secularism, Identity and the Image of the Railway in South Asia, she examines the way colonial and postcolonial writers in India re-imagined modernity through the emblem of the railway. Her work spans the fields of literary and cultural studies, social geography, globalization studies and the history of technology. Marian received her doctorate in English from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She has taught on numerous topics related to her interests, including Culture and Globalization, Postcolonial Studies, South Asian Literature and Film, and Race and Ethnicity in a Global Context. Several of her articles have appeared or are forthcoming in such journals as Cultural Critique, Modern Fiction Studies, Journal of Modern Literature, and Rethinking Marxism, as well as in edited book collections. | ||
Barbara
Anderson, Bessie Anathan Professor of Drama and Associate Dean, |
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| Anderson
received a B.F.A. degree from Drake University and an M.F.A. from the Yale
School of Drama. She is the author, with Cletus Anderson of Costume Design,
and has been a designer for feature, historical, educational, and industrial
films, She has worked on television production for National Geographic and
the United States Judicial Commission. Her work on PBS’ Mister Roger's
Neighborhood was nominated for an Emmy Award, and won an Emmy Award for
the Leatherstocking Tales. She has also supervised costume construction
for various local and regional companies, including the Santa Fe Opera Company,
the Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera, the National Repertory Theatre, and the
Pittsburgh Public Theatre, designing and executing over forty productions.
She is a member of the International Council of Fine Arts Deans, and has
sat on the accreditation committees for the theatre programs at the University
of Illinois at Chicago and the Hong Kong Academy School of Theatre Arts.
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Edith Balas, Professor of Art History |
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| Edith Balas, Professor of Art History, College of Humanities & Social Sciences Balas' main areas of interest are modern art (1890-1960), painting and sculpture, and the art of the Italian Renaissance. Balas¹ published books include Brancusi & Romanian Folk Traditions, (Second Edition 2006; trans. 1999; First Edition 1987); Michelangelo's Double Self-Portraits (2004); The Early Work of Henry Koerner (2003); The Mother Goddess in Italian Renaissance Art (2002); The Holocaust in the Painting of Valentin Lustig (2001); Joseph Csaky: A Pioneer of Modern Sculpture (1998); and Michelangelo's Medici Chapel: A New Interpretation (1995). In 2003, she curated an exhibition at the Frick Art Museum, and several in Pittsburgh, Paris, New York and Budapest. She has been teaching at Carnegie Mellon since 1977, and is also a research associate at the University of Pittsburgh. She has published over two dozen articles in the United States, Holland, Hungary, Romania, Italy, and France, and holds an M.A. in Philosophy, 1952, Bucharest; M.A. in History of Arts, 1970, Pittsburgh; Ph.D., Pittsburgh, 1973. |
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Dan Boyarski, Professor of Design and Head, School of Design |
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| Dan
Boyarski has been at Carnegie Mellon’s School of Design for twenty-four
years. He teaches courses in typography, information design, and interaction
design at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. Dan is interested
in time-based communication, visualizing information spaces, and how type,
image, sound, and movement may be combined for effective communication.
He speaks at national and international conferences and symposia dealing
with human-computer interaction, designing interactive systems, design education,
and design and new media. In the spring of 1999, the Design Management Institute
awarded Dan the Muriel Cooper Prize for "outstanding achievement in
advancing design, technology, and communications in the digital environment."
He received a bachelor’s degree from St. John's University, Minnesota,
and a master’s degree from Indiana University. He did postgraduate
work at the School of Design in Basel, Switzerland. |
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Elizabeth Bradley, Professor of Drama, Head, School of Drama |
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| Bradley
is a producer, presenter, festival director, arts advocate and international
cultural consultant. She came to Carnegie Mellon in September 2001 after
a wide-ranging career of nearly 30 years in the performing arts. Prior to
joining Carnegie Mellon, Bradley was CEO of the Hummingbird Centre for the
Performing Arts in her native Toronto. The Hummingbird Centre presents multidisciplinary
attractions from around the world, featuring many of the major artists of
the last decade. Her theatrical producing credits include Tony-nominated
Broadway productions, Edinburgh Festival premieres and extensive U.S. tours
to major houses, such as the Kennedy Center and City Center in New York.
Bradley has worked directly for artists as manager and agent, and has held
a senior management position for the Stratford Festival of Canada. Bradley
was founding artistic director of the first edition of the Pittsburgh International
Festival of Firsts, held in October 2004. The festival brought nine U.S.
premieres of cutting-edge, multidisciplinary performances to Pittsburgh
to complement the visual arts showcased in the Carnegie International. |
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Stephen Brockmann, Professor of German Studies |
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| Stephen
Brockmann deals primarily with twentieth and twenty-first century German
literature and culture. His scholarship is governed by a commitment to interdisciplinary
research combining the study of literature with the study of history, politics,
and the fine arts. All of his major research projects explore the relationship
between literature and culture on the one hand and German national identity
on the other. His most recent book, Nuremberg: The Imaginary Capital (2006),
is a broad study of German cultural history since 1500, with particular
emphasis on the period since 1800. It explores the ways in which Germans
have imagined Nuremberg as a cultural and spiritual capital, focusing feelings
of national identity on the city—or on their image of it. Other books
include German Literary Culture at the Zero Hour (2004), and Literature
and German Reunification (1999). Since 2002, Brockmann has also been the
managing editor of the Brecht Yearbook, the major scholarly organ devoted
to studying the work of one of the greatest figures in twentieth-century
literature and theater, the playwright and poet Bertolt Brecht. He received
an A.B from Columbia University, an M.A. in German from the University of
Wisconsin at Madison, and a Ph.D. from Wisconsin. |
Lowry Burgess, Professor of Art |
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| Lowry
Burgess is an internationally renowned artist and educator who created the
first official art payload taken into outer space by NASA in 1989 among
his many Space Art works. His artworks are in museums and archives in the
US and Europe. He has exhibited widely in museums in the US, Canada, throughout
Europe, as well as Japan. He is Professor of Art and former Dean of the
College of Fine Arts and Distinguished Fellow in the STUDIO for Creative
Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon. He has founded and administrated many departments,
programs and institutions during his 40 years as an educator in the arts.
He has created curricula in the arts and humanities in the US and Europe
while serving for twelve years on the National Humanities Faculty. For 27
years he has been a Fellow, Senior Consultant and Advisor at the Center
for Advanced Visual Studies at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts where he
created and directed large collaborative projects and festivals in the US
and Europe. He has received awards from the American Academy of Arts and
Letters, the National Institute of Arts and Letters, the Guggenheim Foundation,
the Rockefeller Foundation and several awards from the National Endowment
for the Arts and the Massachusetts Artists Foundation, and the Kellogg Foundation.
He received the Leonardo Da Vinci Space Art Award from the National Space
Society. His book, “Burgess, the Quiet Axis" received the Imperishable
Gold Award from Le Devoir in Montreal. He has been featured in television
and radio broadcasts in the US, Europe, Canada and Japan, and more than
two hundred national and international radio broadcasts including 3 NPR
broadcasts on his works. |
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John Carson, Professor of Art and Head, School of Art |
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| Carson
joined Carnegie Mellon in 2006 from Central Saint Martins College of Art
and Design in London, where he was a principal lecturer in fine art and
course director for the bachelor of fine arts program. He was also a lecturer
in fine art and photography at the National College of Art & Design
in Dublin and a visiting artist and lecturer at various schools and colleges
in Britain, Ireland, Europe, the United States, Australia and New Zealand.
Carson is an arts consultant for various organizations, including BBC-TV;
Public Art Development Trust; Arts Council of England; London Arts; and
others. He is an accomplished writer in the field of multimedia art, and
his writing has appeared in various catalogues, magazines and books around
the world. Carson is also a practicing multimedia artist. He received his
bachelor of fine arts from the University of Ulster at Belfast in 1976 and
his master's degree in fine arts at the California Institute of the Arts
in 1983. |
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Robert Cavalier, Teaching Professor in Philosophy |
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| Robert
Cavalier received his B.A. from New York University and a master’s
and Ph.D. in Philosophy from Duquesne University. Dr. Cavalier is currently
Director of CMU's Center for the Advancement of Applied Ethics and Political
Philosophy. He is also Director of the Center's Digital Media Lab, which
houses Project PICOLA (Public Informed Citizen Online Assembly), and co-Director
of Southwestern Pennsylvania Program for Deliberative Democracy. Cavalier,
an innovative and accomplished lecturer, has successfully incorporated multimedia
technology in his teaching. He helped to develop the H&SS minor in multimedia
production, which he directs. Co-editor of Ethics in the History of Western
Philosophy (1990), editor of The Impact of the Internet on Our Moral Lives
(2003) and other works in ethics as well as articles in educational computing,
Dr. Cavalier is internationally recognized for his work in education and
interactive multimedia. In 1996 Cavalier was designated "Syllabus Scholar"
by Syllabus Magazine in recognition of his life long work with educational
technologies. In 1999 he received an award for "Innovation Excellence
in Teaching, Learning and Technology" at the 10th International Conference
on College Teaching and Learning. In 2002 he was recipient of the H&SS
Elliott Dunlap Smith Teaching Award. |
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Ting Chang, Assistant Professor in the Critical Histories of the Arts |
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| Ting
Chang is an art historian who has previously taught at the University of
Sussex in England and the University of Toronto and McGill University in
Canada. She received B.A. in art history from McGill University, Canada,
M.A. from the University of Toronto, and Ph.D. at the University of Sussex,
England. At Carnegie Mellon she is teaching a new course on ‘the critical
histories of the arts’. She has published on art collecting and display
strategies in nineteenth-century France. Her book manuscript in progress
examines certain European travelers and collectors of Asia art and the formation
of museums of Asian artifacts in Paris, notably the Musée Cernuschi
and the Musée Guimet, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth
centuries. Her past teaching includes undergraduate and graduate courses
in methodology, theories of collecting, collections, museums and exhibitions,
late eighteenth-century European painting and visual culture, nineteenth-century
European painting and postcolonial studies. |
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Michael Chemers, Assistant Professor of Dramatic Literature |
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| Dr.
Michael Chemers received a Ph.D. in Theatre History and Criticism from the
University of Washington in 2001, and an MFA in Playwriting from Indiana
University in 1997. In 2003, he was awarded a Post Doctoral Fellowship at
Carnegie Mellon University’s Center for the Arts in Society. His published
work, appearing in Modern Drama, Theatre Survey, the New England Theatre
Journal, Disability Studies Quarterly, and elsewhere, proposes and develops
new historiographic models for examination of representations of disability,
dissidence, and monstrosity in performance. He is active nationally in advocacy
for persons with disabilities and in the preservation of academic freedom.
Michael has also worked in the professional world as a dramaturg, actor,
and screenwriter. Michael’s plays have won several national awards
and have appeared in theatres across the US. He also collects masks from
around the world and enjoys juggling things that are on fire. |
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Douglas Cooper, Andrew Mellon Professor of Architecture |
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1990, Douglas Cooper has created large panoramic murals in various cities,
worldwide. In many of these projects, he has worked with local residents
and incorporated their life stories into the works—often with drawings
in their own hands. The combination of story, history and collective memory
has become a general theme of Cooper’s work—even non-collaborative
works. The 200 foot-long mural for the University Center at Carnegie Mellon
(1996) shows Pittsburgh and the Carnegie Mellon Campus in three different
time periods. His collaboration with his nephew Gregoire Picher, with his
background in animation, has brought a more significant figurative content
to Cooper’s work. Cooper has authored three books: Drawing and Perceiving,
a widely used text on drawing; Frankfurt Panorama, a book about the making
of the Frankfurt mural; and Steel Shadows about his murals and drawings
in Pittsburgh (2000). In 2000, he received a national award from the American
Institute of Architects for the collaborative contribution of his murals
to the profession of architecture at large. |
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James Duesing, Professor of Art |
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| James
Duesing is a computer animator and video artist. His work has been exhibited
throughout the world in venues as diverse as: The Sundance Film Festival;
PBS; SIGGRAPH; The Berlin Video Festival; MTV; Shanghai Animation Festival;
Film Forum; the Seoul Animation Center and some of the finest rec rooms
in the USA. His work is held in collections at The Museum of Modern Art,
New York; the Goethe Memorial Museum, Tokyo; the UCLA Film Archive, Los
Angeles and The Israel Museum. His work has received much recognition including:
Grants from Creative Capital, the National Endowment for the Arts, an American
Film Institute Fellowship, an Emmy Award, the Deutscher Videokunstpreis,
and a CINE Golden Eagle. He has been Co-Director of The STUDIO of Creative
Inquiry, a center for interdisciplinary collaboration in art and science
projects. He received both his B.F.A. and M.F.A. from the University of
Cincinnati. He currently is a professor in electronic and time based art
in the School of Art. |
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Kenya Dworkin y Mendez, Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies |
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| Dworkin
received her Ph.D. from the University of Hawai’i. Her current research
involves an analysis of the cultural and sociolinguistic survival of a unique
Latin community in Ybor City, Florida, through its tradition of Spanish-language
and particularly Cuban theater. More specifically, the project also involves
an analysis of the U.S. government's WPA Federal Theater Project during
the 1930s and 1940s and its assimilatory goals with respect to the Spanish-speaking
community in Ybor City. Other projects include 1) a sociolinguistic, ethnographic
study of the circumstances surrounding the emigration of Puerto Ricans to
Hawai’i; 2) a psycholinguistic and cultural analysis of the literary
production of Latino monolingual, bicultural writers; and 3) an analysis
of the self- contradicting discourse of identity and independence in late
nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century Cuba. She has published in
Nuevo Texto Crítico and Lucero: A Journal of Iberian and Latin American
Studies. |
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Paul Eiss, Associate Professor of Anthropology and History |
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| Paul
Eiss is a graduate of the Doctoral Program in Anthropology and History at
the University of Michigan, whose research is based upon ethnographic and
archival research in Mexico. In his dissertation and recent publications,
Eiss explores such topics as: the politics of labor, land tenure and ethnicity;
popular religion; indigenous education; value; and archives and historical
memory. His book manuscript (In the Name of the Pueblo: Possession, Sovereignty
and History in Yucatan) is an anthropology and history of the emergence
and transformation of "el pueblo", as a political, material and
spiritual entity, from the eighteenth century to the present. Eiss has explored
this topic through extensive periods of archival research in Yucatan, Mexico
City, and Spain, and ethnographic fieldwork in the Hunucma district of northwestern
Yucatan, Mexico, among Maya and Spanish speaking inhabitants of pueblos
and ex-haciendas. Eiss recently was awarded a National Academy of Education-Spencer
Postdoctoral Fellowship for a project on indigenous education, as well as
the Society for Cultural Anthropology's "Cultural Horizons" prize,
for his article, "Hunting for the Virgin." |
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| Felipe Gómez, Lecturer of Spanish | ||
| Felipe Gómez was born in Brazil and grew up in Colombia, where he earned a licenciatura (BA) in Literature from Universidad de los Andes in 1998. He received his PhD in Spanish language and literatures from The University of Michigan in 2004 with the mystery novel/dissertation "Misterio regio: contracultura y el cadáver de Caicedo" (Regal Mystery: Counterculture and Caicedo's Corpse), directed by Santiago Colás. Felipe started teaching in 1992, when he taught grades 1-5 in a public school serving a rural Colombian jungle community, as part of a university outreach program. Felipe now specializes in teaching Hispanic language, literature and culture at the university level. Felipe's interests encompass Latin American and Caribbean literature, film, and popular music from the late 20th-century, especially the interdisciplinary production of countercultural movements in Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico in the 1960s-1980s. His interests also include the cycles of political violence and impunity in 20th century Latin American history as presented in its literature and popular culture. | ||
Kai Gutschow, Assistant Professor of Architecture |
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| Kai
Gutschow teaches modern architectural history and theory, and is coordinator
of the second-year architectural design studios in the School of Architecture.
His background is both in history and design, and he is constantly working
to find connections between the two. He began working in architectural offices
in high school, studied art history at Swarthmore College, then completed
a two-year, guild-based cabinetmaking apprenticeship in Hamburg, Germany,
where he also designed and crafted several small architectural projects.
He went on to earn a professional Master of Architecture degree at the University
of California at Berkeley while working independently and in several architectural
offices in the San Francisco Bay Area, and spent a year working as an architect
and preservation planner in Nepal and traveling extensively in India and
Asia. Before coming to Carnegie Mellon, he taught at Washington State University
and enrolled in a Ph.D. program in architectural history through the Department
of Art History at Columbia University in New York. After extensive research
in German and European archives, he is currently finishing his dissertation
on German architectural criticism in the 1920s. The research has formed
the basis for several published articles, and was funded by fellowships
from Columbia, the Jacob Javitts Foundation, the Fulbright Commission and
the Parliament of Berlin. He brings these experiences to his work by bringing
an emphasis on theory, precedent and craft into his design studios, and
focusing on theory and intellectual history in his courses on modern architecture. |
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Timothy Haggerty, Director, Humanities Scholars Program |
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| Haggerty
is a historian whose current work examines the transformation of journalism
in New York before the Civil War. He received his Ph.D. and an MA from Carnegie
Mellon, where he currently directs the Humanities Scholars Program, a select
undergraduate program within the College of Humanities and Social Sciences.
Prior to becoming director of the Scholars Program, he was the associate
director of the Center for the Arts in Society from 2000 to 2005. |
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Bruce Hanington, Associate Professor of Design and Program Chair, Industrial Design |
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| Bruce
Hanington teaches industrial design, human factors, and research methods
for human-centered design. He is interested in the cultural context of artifacts,
exploring the connections between ritual and artifact, and discovering object
qualities that enhance the experience of product use. Hanington's research
activity examines the social and cultural factors of design and the connections
between ritual and artifact as well as the symbolic and expressive aspects
of human-object interaction. He is particularly concerned with the cognition
and emotive experience of product use; he is currently the principal investigator,
with Dan Boyarski and Liza Wellman of The New Design Studio: Understanding
Collaborative Spaces, which received its project funding from Pennsylvania
Infrastructure Technology Alliance (PITA), in 2000. He received his B.A.
and his Master of Environmental Design in Industrial Design from the University
of Calgary. |
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Suguru Ishizaki, Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Communication Design |
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| Suguru
Ishizaki’s research focuses on developing tools for communication
design, and for the past several years has addressed problems and opportunities
associated with the design of digital communication media. In his book,
Improvisational Design: Continuous Responsive Digital Communication (2003),
he proposed a descriptive model of design--along with a series of computational
experiments--that would allow designers to represent design solutions that
are responsive to dynamic changes in the information recipient's intention,
in the situation, and in the information. He also explored Kinetic Typography--a
study of how different situated meanings of written text emerge by expressing
the text using animated forms. Recently, he has been working on developing
a theoretical framework that would allow us to analyze how surface visual
design decisions relate to rhetorical effects. He has also collaborated
with David Kaufer on rhetorical text analysis. The results of this collaboration
were published in Power of Words: Unveiling the Speaker and Writer's Hidden
Craft (2004), co-authored by David Kaufer, Jeff Collins, and Brian Butler.
He is also a practicing interaction and visual designer. |
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| Mary
Catharine Johnsen, Special Collections Librarian for Fine & Rare Books; Liaison Librarian to the School of Design |
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| Mary Kay has worked at Carnegie Mellon since 1982 as Special Collections Librarian and, additionally, since 1991 as Design Liaison Librarian. She has an A.B. in Art History from Stanford University, M.A. in Art History from the University of Pittsburgh, an M.L.S in Library Science from Catholic University of America, and an M.P.M in Public Management from the Heinz School at Carnegie Mellon. She has taught Special Collections Management, Preservation of Books and Library Materials, History of Children's Literature, and History of Books and Printing at Carnegie Mellon, University of Pittsburgh School of Library and Information Science and Clarion University of Pennsylvania School of Library Science. In the Libraries, she has researched and installed over 90 exhibits and given many presentations about the rare books and collections. | ||
Andrew Johnson, Associate Professor of Art |
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| Andrew
Johnson received his BFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago,
and his M.F.A. from Carnegie Mellon. His exhibitions address exigencies
of daily realities and undress the refined aesthetics of art. He has shown
in numerous solo and group exhibitions nationally and internationally. In
the collaborative PED (with cohorts Millie Chen and Paul Vanouse) he created
info/excer-tainment opportunities, invisibly performing as a service bureau
and orchestrating viewers to unwittingly perform on radio-wired bicycles
throughout the cities of Hamilton, Canada; Belfast, Ireland; and the Tonawandas
and Buffalo in New York. He recently returned from teaching at the Korean
National University of the Arts in Seoul. |
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Xiaofei Kang, Assistant Professor of Chinese Studies |
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| Xiaofei
Kang has a B.A and M.A in Chinese language and literature from Beijing University
and a Ph.D. in Chinese History from Columbia University. Prior to coming
to Carnegie Mellon, she taught history at St. Mary's College of Maryland.
She emphasizes interdisciplinary approaches in her research. Her first book,
The Cult of the Fox: Power, Gender, and Popular Religion in Late Imperial
and Modern China, combines the disciplines of ethnography, literature, and
cultural history to examine the relationship among religion, gender, and
power. Her current research examines gender and religious power in conjunction
with ethnicity and modernity in twentieth-century and contemporary China. |
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David Kaufer, Professor of English and Rhetoric and Head, Department of English |
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| Kaufer
has been at Carnegie Mellon since 1980 and has been head of the English
Department since 1994. Under Kaufer's leadership, the English Department
has lured several strong junior and senior faculty members to the university.
Kaufer is co-director of the master's program in communication planning
and information design, an interdisciplinary program between the Department
of English and the School of Design in the university's College of Fine
Arts. This is the only program in the world in which writers and designers
train together. Kaufer's primary research area is rhetorical theory, the
relationship of language to audience effects, a study to which he has devoted
three of the five books on which he has been the lead author. Kaufer previously
taught at the State University of New York in Albany. He holds a Ph.D. in
rhetorical theory from the University of Wisconsin. |
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Elaine A. King, Professor of the History of Art & Theory |
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| Elaine
A. King received an interdisciplinary Ph.D. from Northwestern University
(1986) in Theory and History of Art, and holds a joint master’s degree
in Art History and Public Policy and a B.S. in Art History and American
History from Northern Illinois University. American University has selected
Elaine A. King to be the Distinguished Art Historian in Residence for the
International Program in Corciano, Italy in 2007. King is interested in
government funding/policy and contemporary art from 1945 to present time.
In addition to teaching at Carnegie Mellon, Dr. King served as the Executive
Director and Curator of the Carnegie Mellon Art Gallery (1985-1991), and
of the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati (1995-97. Throughout her career
as a curator she organized a wide range of one-person and group exhibitions
and catalogues for such artists as Barry Le Va, Martin Puryear, Tishan Hsu,
Howard BenTree, Gordan Matta-Clark, Elizabeth Murray, Mel Bochner, Nancy
Spero, Robert Wilson, David Humphrey, and Martha Rosler. In September 2006,
she published a timely anthology titled Ethics and the Visual Arts that
she and Gail Levin co-edited. Currently, she is writing a book titled, IN
YOUR FACE: Portraits 1960-2006 –it will also become an exhibition.
Dr. King is an active member of the Association of International Art Critics,
and has given papers at International Congresses in England, Wales, Poland,
Slovakia, Hungary, Slovenia, and Barbados. She is a freelance critic who
writes for Sculpture, Art on Paper, Grapheion, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette,
and the Washington Post. |
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Jon P. Klancher, Associate Professor of English and Literary and Cultural Studies |
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| Klancher's
research has focused on writers' relation to their publics, the forming
of cultural institutions, and the impact of new print media. He is the author
of The Making of English Reading Audiences 1790-1832, and many essays on
literary history, the history of critical theory, and the sociology of culture.
He taught at UCLA, Caltech, and Boston University before coming to Carnegie
Mellon, and has held both Guggenheim and NEH fellowships. He also recently
served as the Charles Watts Visiting Professor in English at Brown University.
Currently he is working on the debate concerning historicism, postmodernity,
and the restructuring of cultural and political institutions. |
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John
P. Lehoczky, Thomas Lord Professor of Statistics and Mathematical Sciences,
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| Dr.
Lehoczky received his undergraduate degree in mathematics from Oberlin College
and his master's and doctoral degrees in statistics from Stanford University,
and he joined the Carnegie Mellon faculty in 1969. His main teaching and
research interests involve the theory and application of stochastic processes
to model the behavior of real applications. He has developed methodology
that has been adopted by projects ranging from NASA's Space Station and
Mars Rover to the GPS Satellite System and F-35 aircraft. Lehoczky has led
H&SS since 2000, first as interim dean before he was appointed to a
full term in 2000, and reappointed in 2006. He has overseen the launch of
the college's ambitious Humanities Initiative, a collaborative effort of
Carnegie Mellon's humanities departments to produce alumni who have the
skills to solve real-world problems, the flexibility to adapt to changing
technology and markets, and a respect for intellectual and cultural diversity.
He is one of the founders of Carnegie Mellon's master's degree program in
Computational Finance, a collaborative effort of the Department of Statistics,
the Department of Mathematical Sciences, the Tepper School of Business,
and the H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management. Lehoczky
is a trustee of the National Institute of Science, and he has been published
extensively in a variety of journals including Annals of Applied Probability,
Management Science and Real-Time Systems. |
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